NAACP REPORT ON TEABAGGERS TO BE RELEASED THIS WEEK

The last line in this article is telling: "The attempt to paint a very diffuse movement with a pretty broad brush will no doubt infuriate grassroots conservatives." That is exactly going to be what the right-wingers are going to say the NAACP is doing. Their problem is that they haven't. When the NAACP called out teabaggers to repudiate their more racist elements, that meant their more racist elements. They didn't paint them with a "pretty broad brush", or say that all teabaggers are racist. But then again the Department of Homeland Security report that warned against right-wing extremists did not call out all right-wingers, but those right-wingers went on the defensive saying the report, as Michelle Malkin posted on her blog April 14, 2009, "demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party". Now that was posted ten days after a white supremacist in the Pittsburgh area shot four police officers,  and a little over a month before an anti-abortion activist killed abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, which itself was two weeks before a white supremacist killed a black security guard and injured others when he shot up the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Malkin herself has been a contributor to the anti-Hispanic website VDARE, maintained by right-wing extremist Peter Brimelow and featuring a number of white supremacist writers like the Sam Francis and Jared Taylor. In short, who gives a rat's ass what the teabaggers say about the NAACP report? Judging from the history, if they go that route of saying that the NAACP is painting them with a "pretty broad brush", they just might be telling on themselves! For more about the NAACP's efforts, visit TeaPartyTracker.org.